President Joe Biden’s $2.25 trillion American Jobs Plan contains one particular provision that looks much different from physical infrastructure: $400 billion to make long-term care cheaper and raise care workers’ wages.
For health care policy experts, the need is obvious. Care work is a tough job. It’s also an essential service, and one of the fastest-growing occupations in a country with a rapidly aging population. About 95 million Americans will be 65 and older by the year 2060 (nearly double the number in 2018), ballooning the need for affordable in-home care. But in order to entice more people to do care work, many lawmakers and experts agree that these need to become better jobs.
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There s fear out there. Not all nursing home staff want to get COVID vaccine Adam Wagner and Josh Shaffer, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
Jan. 8 RALEIGH In November, Principle Long Term Care asked the full-time staffers across its 36 state nursing homes whether they felt comfortable taking a COVID-19 vaccine.
A stark answer came back: About 25% said yes.
The reasons varied, said Lynn Hood, president and CEO of Principle, which operates three long-term centers in the Triangle. But for much of the staff, reluctance dated to the infamous Tuskegee Institute studies, in which Black patients were recruited for a decades-long syphilis experiment without their consent and were never given adequate treatment.